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Observations from my trip to India

Version One Ventures

Version One has made only one investment in the region ( Headout , a fast growing marketplace for travel experiences) and I had written a small LP cheque into an emerging fund manager ( 1947 Rise , run by the awesome Shiva Sangwan ). And I had more than 20 1:1 meetings with founders, angels, emerging fund managers and institutional VC funds.

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Why Every Company Needs a Growth Manager

Seeing Both Sides

Yet, in recent years technology startups have embraced a new role, Growth Manager — alternatively Growth Hacker, Growth PM, or Head of Growth — that focuses on it exclusively. Yet, the Growth Manager role remains poorly understood, especially outside Silicon Valley.

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Why Every Company Needs a Growth Manager

Seeing Both Sides

Yet, in recent years technology startups have embraced a new role, Growth Manager — alternatively Growth Hacker, Growth PM, or Head of Growth — that focuses on it exclusively. Yet, the Growth Manager role remains poorly understood, especially outside Silicon Valley.

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Seven Things Your Customers Can Do Better Than You

YoungUpstarts

You take that money and invest a good portion of it in traditional sales and marketing efforts — including product developers, creative people, and salespeople, all of whom are paid to figure out what buyers want and to say good things about your company — in a quest to get even more customers. In return, the customers pay you money.

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Seven Reasons Why Customer Reference Programs Fail

YoungUpstarts

Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff put it best when he said that even though every company knows customer references are important, most companies have a lax approach to actually managing them. This includes an adequate reference management system (RMS) that automates as much of the data needs of the program as possible.

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23 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I monetize the site with Google AdSense and with a Grammarly affiliate program. My expertise in product development and project management came after working as a consultant in many industries. Since January of 2020 when we began, we’ve gone from 0 to 30,000 unique visitors per month. Photo credit: Jessica Randhawa.

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Unique Benefits of Social Media Marketing that You Probably Never Knew

The Startup Magazine

You can even break these targets further based on attributes, such as the app they use, political affiliations, and life events. For example, S7V Airlines managed to reach 60% of the targeted audience using Instagram advertising. When you use social media targeting, it is possible to hit more than 50% of your targeted audience.